This item contains a letter from Economist Tiri Kuibakul responding to Mr MacWilliam’s letter that contains information on the economists for the coffee industry.
The quarterly report of March 1993 is included in this item and it reports on signs of recovery in coffee prices since October 1991. It contains statistics on the distribution of production by provinces and updates on trends in coffee prices, forecasts for world production and general expectations for coffee prices.

This coffee report of October 1989 shares data on market development, global trends and forecasts, domestic trends and developments, and production and export rates. This report also contains useful tables on coffee exports and other coffee statistics.

Economist Kessy Kufinale writes this discussion paper on the case of Catimor in Papua New Guinea. This paper evaluates Catimor, a larger research project in PNG, to provide a justification for its introduction in PNG and to provide economic values and establishment in this field.

This paper is a field handbook and guide for growing Arabica coffee in PNG. It is published as first draft go garner more discussion and dialogue with improving this manual. It covers descriptions on (a) coffee trees, (b) the soil and climate sustainability, (c) land clearing and preparation, (d) coffee industry and seedling production, (e) planting coffee in the field, (f) establishment of shade and shelter, (g) pruning of coffee, (h) use of fertilizers, (i) weed control, (j) coffee pests and diseases, (k) coffee processing and (l) weights and measures. This guide contains diagrams for better visual of the descriptive information.

This paper is a field handbook and guide for growing Arabica coffee in PNG. It is published as first draft go garner more discussion and dialogue with improving this manual. It covers descriptions on (a) coffee trees, (b) the soil and climate sustainability, (c) land clearing and preparation, (d) coffee industry and seedling production, (e) planting coffee in the field, (f) establishment of shade and shelter, (g) pruning of coffee, (h) use of fertilizers, (i) weed control, (j) coffee pests and diseases, (k) coffee processing and (l) weights and measures. This guide contains diagrams for better visual of the descriptive information.

This paper is a field handbook and guide for growing Arabica coffee in PNG. It is published as first draft go garner more discussion and dialogue with improving this manual. It covers descriptions on (a) coffee trees, (b) the soil and climate sustainability, (c) land clearing and preparation, (d) coffee industry and seedling production, (e) planting coffee in the field, (f) establishment of shade and shelter, (g) pruning of coffee, (h) use of fertilizers, (i) weed control, (j) coffee pests and diseases, (k) coffee processing and (l) weights and measures. This guide contains diagrams for better visual of the descriptive information.

This paper is on the results of the Group Assessment survey that was carried out with the coffee plantation managers from the Eastern Highlands Province. The finding shows that with the increasing production costs, Papua New Guinea plantations could hardly cover their operating costs. It includes graphs of their monthly export costs and other operational costs.

This paper describes plantation cost of production survey in 1995. It discusses the survey, its methodology, characteristics of respondent plantations and factories and discusses the results. It also refers to relevant issues of labour costs, profitability, competitiveness and yields.

This paper is on the smallholder coffee system production costs, grower returns and economic sustainability and it is concerned with costs of production in the smallholder coffee sector and the associated economic returns to its labour. It contains (1) smallholder production levels and associated yields, (2) labour inputs and appropriate economic evaluation (3) Smallholder production costs, (4) prices and marketing patterns (5) grower returns, (6) Coffee production and labour inputs and (7) policy recommendations for sustainability.